First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
Kevin Wayne Williams
@kww.bsky.social
Idea Landlord. Author of "PS43 Survives" ( https://ps43survives.com ) and "Everything I Know About Zombies, I Learned in Kindergarten" ( https://www.amazon.com/Everything-About-Zombies-Learned-Kindergarten/dp/0990853306 ).
I keep seeing this term "Michigander", and I am officially giving the spurious "d" the side-eye. Besides, Peninsulite is easier to say.
LOL @ last line!! My award-winning first novel in The Q’Zam’Ta Trilogy: jeejeebhoy.ca/library/the-... And my award-winning self-help book on healing #BrainInjury grief: jeejeebhoy.ca/library/brai... For more empowering dystopian set in Toronto: jeejeebhoy.ca/library/time... #WriteStuff
The Soul's Awakening - Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy
The first book in a new trilogy written by Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy, The Soul's Awakening explores what if afterlife is just the beginning.
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www.royalroad.com/fiction/1485... Check out the Ninth Drift where members of the community come together to deal with the consequences of unregulated capitalism and also ghosts.
The Ninth Drift
In a small desert village, sometimes you have to wear a lot of hats. Enya Warden-Ernest is a pillar in her Chunish community, and is, among other things, a mother, a teamster, a chaplain, and a necrom...
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Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
Am I supposed to view this as a reward or a threat? I lean towards the former.
Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.
A prime example of what artists try to teach writers not to do. Imagine this cover again, except the only words are the title block and a caption block (where it currently says "TRUE AMAZING ACCOUNTS ... ") that reads simply "Take a ride to the thirteenth floor". Isn't it better?
Comics in the Golden Age@comicsinthega.bsky.social · 3d agoCover by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon, with letters by Ben Oda. #JackKirbyMonth
I've been browsing the world's selections of Trilby hats ... and find myself astounded by some of the pricing. What on earth would make a hat worth $595.00?
For today's #CountrySka addition to #CountryRockSunday, we have Tommy McCook playing "Ode to Billy Joe"
Billy Joe - Original
YouTube video by Tommy McCook - Topic
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One should take note that none of the approving states has a meaningful population.
I'll have to go see this ... MIM is on my way to the airport.
Musical Instrument Museum acquires renowned pipe organ’s console - AZ Big Media
A piece of Chicago history has quietly made its way to North Phoenix’s Musical Instrument Museum.
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1960: a-go-go computerese monkeypox soul food valet parking
uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄@danacorn.bsky.social · 5d ago1977: Bibimbap Cringeworthy Karaoke Megahit Social liberalism
Unless and until Scouting America permits atheists to be members, no one should have anything to do with them anyway. This is just one more reason to shut this organisation down completely.
Scouting America drops diversity initiatives from event after pressure from the Pentagon - AOL
One of Scouting America’s biggest gatherings has eliminated dedicated spaces for gay youth, women and scouts of color as the organization faces pressure from the Pentagon to pull back diversity effort...
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On a related note ... I was a paperboy for the Omaha World Herald when I was young. On of my customers, Ed Guinan, had been a newsboy for the Omaha Bee. He took me aside one day to tell me the story of the night he spent in an alley hiding from a lunch mob that hung the mayor.
✪ A Somber Birthday Gray in Late August ✪@jongraywb.blacksky.app · last wk.Having to look up pictures of actual lynching picnics for what is admittedly a very dark project and… Jesus… if ever you wanted the quickest, easiest way to despise White American “humanity” this may actually be it
On a related note ... I was a paperboy for the Omaha World Herald when I was young. On of my customers, Ed Guinan, had been a newsboy for the Omaha Bee. He took me aside one day to tell me the story of the night he spent in an alley hiding from a lunch mob that hung the mayor.
✪ A Somber Birthday Gray in Late August ✪@jongraywb.blacksky.app · last wk.Having to look up pictures of actual lynching picnics for what is admittedly a very dark project and… Jesus… if ever you wanted the quickest, easiest way to despise White American “humanity” this may actually be it
The claim that Christians automatically possess superior moral standards is contradicted by history and everyday reality. Atheists don't need a deity to recognize that human beings have intrinsic worth, can suffer, and deserve equal rights.
Why do we keep naming bases after Southern traitors?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.The Air Force will rename Joint Base Charleston, its massive South Carolina base that’s home to much of the military’s C-17 cargo aircraft fleet, after the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to a memo obtained by The Post.
In this vein, if Sam Raimi made an adaptation of my book that missed the point of the story, I'd speak up about it ... but I'd be grateful to have something like that to complain about.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last wk.Not sure I’d shit on something that helped me sell half a million copies of my book, personally
This meme is beginning to bug me ... isn't this a picture of Odysseus suffering from an overwhelming desire? Shouldn't it be posted next to things the poster finds intensely desirable? #TheOdyssey
For those that are interested in a self-published experience -- I'm relatively successful for self-published horror. IngramSpark maintains complete sales records, and here they are. Amazon runs about ten times this for digital sales, and twice this for physical, but no 12-year chart from them.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.For the record, the first printing of my first novel, Old Man's War, was 3,700 copies, in line with the advance I got for it, which was $6,500. It went back for several printings but regardless only 7,700 of the Tor edition of the hardcover were printed. It didn't really take off until paperback.
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
Incidentally, for all those people that think I'm too stupid to use Celsius when I tell you that it hits 50 degrees in the summer here, I offer this dashboard picture as evidence.
Kevin Wayne Williams@kww.bsky.social · 2w agoWonderful day
Attention, @kenjennings.bsky.social ... this band should show up as a "Before and After" someday.
Jetboy Jetgirl@jetboyjetgirl.bsky.social · 2w agoHe’s the lead person (songwriter) in The Brian Jonestown Massacre. A loose acrimonious connection to @yamiacat.bsky.social’s pick today :-) NOT A TOKEN youtu.be/StV9lElcvAY
There's been a recent trend of novels that are feminist retellings of Greek myths. I've found them quite enjoyable.
Your ol' pal Les McClaine@lesmcclaine.com · 2w agoIf ancient myth ain't open to reinterpretation and reinvention I don't know what is
@davidmalki.com Colour! Have to admit I was suprised, but it's a good look.